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<h1>Answering a prompt by selecting answers from a list</h1>
<p>Some prompted reports require you to select answers from a list of choices, 
 such as attribute elements, to define the data that is displayed on the 
 report. </p>
<p>Prompts that require you to select answers from a list include the following:</p>
<ul type="disc" class="whs1">
	
<li class=p><p>A prompt where you select attribute elements. (This 
 is an attribute element prompt.)</p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>A prompt where you select attributes. (This is an object 
 prompt.)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>If you attempt to run a report that contains a required prompt without 
 answering the required prompt, the report will not run, and a message 
 stating this requirement is displayed.</p>
<h2>Prerequisite</h2>
<p>This procedure assumes you have executed a report that has prompts and 
 are therefore presented with a prompt.</p>
<h2>To answer a prompt by selecting answers from a list</h2>
<ol type="1" class="whs2">
	
<li class=p-Steps><p class=Steps>Click the name of a prompted report 
 to run it. A prompted report will present a prompt question to be answered 
 before the report data is displayed.</p></li>
	
<li class=p-Steps><p class=Steps>Provide one or more answers by selecting 
 one or more items from the center pane and clicking the <span style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;"><I><img src="images/prompt_add_one.gif" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="24px" height="22px" border="0" class="img_whs3"></I></span><span 
 style="text-align: center;"> button. </span>Depending on how the prompt 
 was designed, the following scenarios may also apply:</p></li>
</ol>
<ul type="1" class="whs4">
	<ul type="disc" class="whs1">
		
<li class=p-TopicTextBulleted><p class=TopicTextBulleted>The prompt 
 may already have a default answer. You can keep it, add other answers 
 to it, or remove it form the list of answers by clicking <img src="images/prompt_remove_one.gif" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="24px" height="23px" border="0" class="img_whs5"> 
 .</p></li>
		
<li class=p-TopicTextBulleted><p class=TopicTextBulleted>You can 
 change the order of your answers by selecting the answer you want to move 
 and clicking &nbsp;<img src="images/PromptUpArrow.gif" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="20px" height="21px" border="0" class="img_whs6"> to move the answer up or <img src="images/Promptdownarrow.gif" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="21px" height="20px" border="0" class="img_whs7"> to move the answer down.</p></li>
		
<li class=p><p>The prompt may not require an answer. This information 
 appears on the left side of the prompt screen, under Index, listed as 
 either <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Required</B></span> or <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Optional</B></span>.</p></li>
		
<li class=p><p>The prompt may require a certain number of answers. 
 This information appears on the left side of the prompt screen, listed 
 as <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Maximum qualifications</B></span>.</p></li>
	</ul>
</ul>
<p class="whs8">The answers you select will be used to filter 
 the data that is returned on the report.</p>
<ol start="3" type="1" class="whs2">
	
<li class=p><p>Depending upon the number of prompts required for the 
 report, do one of the following:</p></li>
	<ul type="1" class="whs4">
		
<li class=p-TopicTextBulleted><p class=TopicTextBulleted>If there 
 are more prompts that must be answered, click <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Next</B></span><span> 
 and repeat steps 1 and 2 until all prompts are answered.</span></p></li>
		
<li class=p-TopicTextBulleted><p class=TopicTextBulleted>If all 
 of the prompts have been answered, click <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Run 
 Report </B></span>or <span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Run Document</B></span>. 
 The report is executed and your results are displayed. </p></li>
	</ul>
</ol>
<h2>Renaming a prompted report</h2>
<p>When you run a prompted report or document, at the bottom of the prompt 
 selection page, you can rename the prompted report or document. This allows 
 you to choose a meaningful name that makes it easier to later find the 
 report or document in your History List or your My Reports folder.</p>
<p>For example, for a prompted sales report, if you answer a prompt question 
 by specifying the month of October, you can rename the report &quot;October 
 Sales&quot;. Note that this name change is reflected only in your personal 
 version of the report (in your History List). It does not change the actual 
 name of the report object in MicroStrategy.</p>
<h3>Related topics</h3>
<ul type="disc" class="whs1">
	
<li class=p><p>
<a HREF="Answer_prompt_with_value.htm">Answering a prompt 
 by typing a specific value</a></p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>
<a HREF="Answer_prompt_filter_on_attribute.htm">Answering 
 a prompt by defining a filter based on an attribute</a></p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>
<a HREF="Answer_prompt_filter_on_metric.htm">Answering 
 a prompt by defining a filter based on a metric calculation</a></p></li>
</ul>
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